Light attachment for irons



Dec. 13, 1932 UTREVls LIFT ATTACHMENT FOR IRONS 7 Filed April 18, 1931 INVENTOR I 5 ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 13, 1932 PATENT OFFICE LULA oriinvis, 011 NEWARK, OHIO LIGHT ATTACHMENT FOR IRONS Application med April 18,

The object of this, my present invention, is to provide an electrically heated iron with a bulb and a reflector therefor, whereby the light rays from the bulb will be directed onto the goods pressed by the iron so that comparatively great illumination required when ironing at night will not be necessitated and further wherein the bulb serves as an indicator whereby the operator will have knowledge that the current is directed to the heating elements in the iron and likewise be informed of any breakage or electric disconnection of parts.

A further object is the provision of an illuminating device for irons which may be attached to any ordinary electrically heated iron without altering. any of the parts thereof.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an electrically heated iron in accordance with this invention, parts being in section.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary top plan View with parts in section showing the manner in which the conductors for the electric bulb are attached to the posts of the iron.

Figure 3 is a detail plan view looking toward the inner, or rear portion of the handle.

Figure 4 is a similar view looking toward the forward end of the handle.

The iron 1 is of the ordinary construction, the same containing therein the usual Heating elements that are connected to the usual outstanding metal posts 2, respectively. The iron has fixed on its top the substantially U-shaped support 3 for the handle 4. In the present instance the handle is-provideddrom what I will term its outer end with a socket 5 that communicates with its central bore, and in this socket there is arranged a sleeve 6 .whose outer end is enlarged and exteriorly threaded, as at 7. Inward of the head 7 the sleeve is provided with an annular flange or shoulder 8 to contact with the outer arm of the handle support 3 and screwed on the threaded. end 7 of the sleeve there is a combined reflector and shield 9 for a lamp bulb 10 that is screwed in a socket 11 received in 1931. Serial No. 531,229.

but held from contact with the sleeve 6 by a tubular sheet 12 of insulating material. The sleeve 6 is preferably formed on one end of a. tube 13 that extends through the bore of the handle 4, and in the tube there is a wound or tubular sheet of insulating material, indicated by the numeral 15.

The reflector is arranged above the toe or front portion of the iron so that the rays of light from the bulb 10 will be directed downwardly overthe said front of the iron and upon the goods pressed by the iron. The sec- 0nd end of the sleeve is held from longitudinal movement by having screwed thereon a nut 16 that contacts with the inner arm of the handle support 3 and the insulated sleeve or tube 15 enters one end of a bendable tube 17 which may be connected to the tube 13 if desired. The tube 17 is arranged along and is suitably secured to the inner arm of the 7 support 3, the lower end of'the tube being open and directed toward the posts 2. The tubes 17 and 13 provide conduits for conductor wires 18 which are attached to the respective posts 2 and the posts 2 are designed to be received in the usual cord carrying socket 19 whose wires are plugged into the house circuit Wires in the usual manner. One of the conductor wires 18 has the end thereof received in the sleeve 6 connected to a contact element 20 which is preferably in the nature of an angle member whose upstanding arm engages with the contact for the electric bulb 10.

From the foregoing description it will be noted that the conductors for the lamp bulb (While wrapped'in the usual manner) are insulated from the handle 4 so that the iron can be employed in the usual manner without liability of electric shocks to the user thereof.

It will be further noted that the lamp bulb is illuminated by the same power that heats the iron 1. The bulb 10 not only serves as a means for illuminating the goods upon an ironing board and thereby obviates the necessity of the employment of bright illumination by the ordinary bulbs or gas burners but the said bulb also serves as an indicator as should the same'be extinguished the operator will have knowledge of short circuits or of disconnection of parts in the iron. It is to be noted that the shouldered sleeve 6, when the nut 16 is screwed thereon, provides means for fixedly attaching the handle to the support 3.

It is believed the foregoing description will fully and clearly set forth the construction of my improvement and the advantages thereof so that further detailed description will not be required.

Having described the invention, I claim:

An electric'heating iron having the usual posts for the heater coils and having a U-shaped handle support thereon and a handle arranged between the u standing ends of the support, said handle having a socket and a bore communicating with the socket and the arms of the support having openings to register with the socket and with the bore, a sleeve having a threaded end and its second end enlarged and formed with an outstanding shoulder and having a threaded portion outward of said shoulder, said sleeve de signed to be passed through the openings in the support and through the bore of the hen dle to arrange its enlarged end in the socket of the handle, and a nut screwed on the reduced and projecting end of the sleeve for drawing the ends of the support into tight frictional engagement with the ends of the handle, a lamp having its base in the enlarged end of the sleeve but insulated therefrom, wrapped conductors for the bulb trained through the sleeve and connected to the posts, and a reflector for the lamp bulb to be removably screwed on the enlarged end of the sleeve.

In testimony whereof ll afix my signature.

LULA UTREVIS.

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